Tag: want to be a writer

  • Help for freelancer writers and bloggers: Blogs to check out

    Help for freelancer writers and bloggers: Blogs to check out

    Freelancing can be lonely business: sitting at a desk, tapping away at a laptop, contact through email. Thank goodness for the internet which means that the company of other freelancers is only a short search away. There are some fantastic bloggers out there for the freelance community. There is lots of helpful information on just…

  • Stronger Fiction: Should you write every day?

    Stronger Fiction: Should you write every day?

    One of those pieces of advice given out to every writer is: Write every day It is given out so often that we are in danger of feeling that we are not writers if we don’t write every day. What if you find it hard to find time to write every day, however? What if…

  • Stronger Fiction: Should you write what you know or know what you write?

    Stronger Fiction: Should you write what you know or know what you write?

    One of the oldest pieces of advice for people who want to write fiction is that they should “write what they know’. This sage piece of wisdom is passed down from teachers to young pupils, from tutors to college students and in many creative writing classes. Yet, what does it actually mean? And is it…

  • Is there ever a time when a freelancer should work for free?

    Is there ever a time when a freelancer should work for free?

    I came across a job website tonight and read their information on becoming a freelancer. I was shocked to see that they advocated taking a first job and doing the work for free. I am a firm believer that at no point should a freelancer ever work for free. Nor do I believe that they…

  • Starting from the beginning as a freelance business owner

    Starting from the beginning as a freelance business owner

    There is something very attractive about being a freelance worker – being your own boss, dictating your own time, tea breaks whenever you want and the joy of working in your pyjamas if you wish, however life is never that simple. When you have a job, you are given targets and work to do, but…

  • 7 retro blog posts you might like to check out

    7 retro blog posts you might like to check out

    When you’ve put a lot of effort into writing your blog posts, it can be difficult to lose them off the top page and awkward for visitors to your page to find and read them, unless of course, they found them through searching a specific topic in Google. So it is good to occasionally write…

  • Helpful Blogs

    The Internet is a great place to be involved in sometimes, especially for writers. No longer do writers have to sit in a solitary place, banging out another article on their keyboard. Now we can network, share blogs, contact other writers and share details. We can even write a novel in a month! Contact with…

  • How to Tell if Your Writing is Good

    You’ve written a story. It may have flowed easily from your pen, or it may have come in fits and starts. You have got it in front of you: on a laptop, a notebook or a piece of paper. Now what?

  • What Do You Write About?

    Every piece of writing helps to build your confidence and if it is accepted by others, then that confidence is worth it.

  • Assessing Your Writing Goals

    It is not enough to write your writing goals down. It’s a good start. You’ve given the matter some thought. Now you need to think it through a bit more.

Verified by MonsterInsights